Ruby on Rails is well known for its simplicity and convention over configuration design philosophy. One of the many powerful features of Rails is its support for backgro...
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Keeping up with the fast-paced environment of the world wide web is an increasingly challenging feat. Your workflow, your tools, and your knowledge of programming all play a significant role in where you stand as a web developer. How does one keep up? What steps must be taken to achieve results without sacrificing performance and code quality? Much is discussed here.
Ruby on Rails uses a Ruby gem called rake to generate tasks that otherwise enable your applications to call code with alias commands.
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I recently posted a poll on YouTube about what "Let's Build" series to revamp, and the answer was a unanimous event scheduling type of Rails application.
In 2018, I p...
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If you are an avid Tailwind CSS user like myself, you probably landed here to learn how to make better use of Tailwind CSS for a more complex ...
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When it comes to leveraging other gems and dependencies in Ruby, Bundler is the primary tool all Rails developers leverage.
Most of us know bas...
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It's that time again. My annual coding setup for 2022 is here. In previous years I've outlined a similar set of tools, software, and extensions since I get asked about t...
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I have fat fingers when it comes to programming some days. I’ll often make a typo when generating a new model or a controller and fudge up a process that creates a bunch...
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If you have followed me for some time you might remember a series I did on Ruby on Rails titled “Let’s Build”. These guides were a “learn in public” exercise I tasked ...
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Adding basic search functionality to a Ruby on Rails app is not the toughest task in the book but when you think about it before hotwire.dev was a...
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Modern versions of Ruby on Rails ship with a very useful application credentials layer that allows you to store private keys and other information fully encrypted.
Un...
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Ruby on Rails ships with no user authentication layer. The core maintainers of the framework made this decision as it could vary per app how you might want to handle suc...
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When Rails 7 made its first appearance in December of 2021 a new default component was introduced called Turbo. If you have any history wi...
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